The Crooked Road | |
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Directed by | Don Chaffey |
Written by | Don Chaffey Jay Garrison |
Based on | novel by Morris West |
Starring |
Robert Ryan Stewart Granger |
Cinematography | Stephen Dade |
Production company | Argo |
Distributed by | Seven Arts Productions |
Release date | 19 September 1965 |
Running time | 92 min. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Crooked Road is a 1965 British film directed and co-written by Don Chaffey. It stars Stewart Granger, Robert Ryan, and Janet Munro. [1] The film is based on the 1957 novel The Big Story by Morris West. [2] An American journalist ( Robert Ryan) plans to expose as a crook the dictator ( Stewart Granger) of a small Balkan state, but finds himself framed for murder.
The film was shot in and around the city of Split and on the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia (now Croatia) over two months. [3]
The New York Times said the film "bounces along nicely". [4]